Dabar vėl Klaipeda...

Well, I am now back from my German adventure in Oldenburg and Bremen. It's good to be back, but at the same time, I do miss it. I miss the home cooked meals, or at least the meals in a home. That fresh baked bread that I would be eating back there seems quite a bit better than this terrible instant oatmeal that I am now eating. Oh well, had to come back sometime.

So a bit of a fill in on what has been happening at LCC in the past couple of weeks...We had this awesome chapel speaker last week and the week before. She is from California and she was teaching a two week course here. She knows 17 different languages and she has believed in God much less of her life than believing in God. However, now she is a phenomenal speaker through God. When she speaks, God speaks. It's awesome. She told us how God grabbed a hold of her heart through different miracles in her life and how he really showed her who he was. He worked through people because she loves people. She told a story about this boy in Siberia who became apart of her life. She was at a conference over here many years ago and she actually studied over here. So she was sitting at the conference and got into a conversation with this woman beside her. As she was talking to her the woman told her about her grandson having this really bad disease and he was dying from it. It was quite ironic because her daughter had the same disease back in the states. So the woman gave her the number of the boy's home to see if they could get any help. Well once she got back to the states, she didn't know how she could help this boy. However, she started to talk to some people and doctor's. She knew that getting a visa for the boy while he was sick was impossible and if not impossible, then pretty much. However, she knew some people in the embassy and got it worked out that if she could get guaranteed free medical help by document proof then the visa could be achieved. So she talked to the doctor and he gave her proof saying that he would do it. So the boy got over here to America to this woman's house who he or his immediate family has never met. However, they didn't think about the hospital bill, so now he's over here dying. Well, she was talking to someone else at a conference and a woman gave her an address of this really rich guy in her town. So she sent a letter to the guy to ask for money and the next day the hospital called saying that they had a $500,000 check in their hands and 2 plane tickets to the city. So, they hopped on a flight and headed out to save this boy. He is now doing well, but here is the craziest thing of all the story, she sent a letter to the address where she sent the original letter and it was returned to her. She called the hospital to see why it was returned and they told her that the address never existed because the guy didn't even live in that town and he lived in New York. Crazy how God works. So this is what she spoke about the first week and then the next week, she told us about how she came to know God, which was also extremely crazy. Chapel has been awesome and so intense for the past few weeks. Other than that, not much has been happening at LCC. We have been haning out a lot and just relaxing which is so unfair to all the students who are working their butts off. It's been good though to relax for a bit.

We left for Germany this past saturday and got back on tuesday. We flew into Bremen and stayed with a family who lived about 45 minutes (by train) outside of Bremen. Don't worry, none of us knew the family. Ha. However, it was awesome. They are in the mission that Ben's parents are apart of. Well, they used to be missionaries in Singnapore, but now they are back in Germany. They have 8 kids, but only 4 are their own. They are foster parents and two of the boys have lived there for 4 or more years. It was good to be with a family and to hang out with the family. We spent a lot of the time with the boys and just had fun. The first day there, Werner (the father) dropped us in this gorgeous town called Oldenburg. We walked around for a few hours and admired it's beauty. That night we went back to the house and had dinner. They had 4 griddles out with meat and vegetables and we each had mini skillets and we made our own skillets of what we wanted. After we got done eating a few friends of Simon (the 24 year old son) came over and made food. When I say a few, I mean about 20 to 25. It was a lot of fun and good to be around a lot of people in our own age range, but from a different country. We went to bed around 11:30 because we were absolutely exhausted. The next morning (sunday), we woke up and had breakfast as a family and then headed to church. Church was a baptism service, which happens 4 times a year. It was this huge celebration with tons of food and fun. 7 people got baptized including the daughter of the family we stayed with (Lieni). It was awesome to be there to witness that. They were so proud of her and so supportive, it was awesome. Plus it was her 15th birthday. After church, we went back to the house to celebrate her birthday and to relax yet some more. We hung out at the house all day and played soccer and basketball with the boys. We hung out inside and played cards and just chilled out. It was great. We had pizza that night with the older siblings and the parents after the boys went to bed. Then we talked with Werner for a bit and headed to bed ourselves. Their family was so awesome and so welcoming. I can't wait to go back and see them again, which I will hopefully in May. They are so great. We went the next morning to the train station to go to Bremen. Bremen itself was so gorgeous in Old Town. The churches were absolutely beautiful and we enjoyed ourselves much. It was great to hang out there. We met up with Claire and Gerard and had dinner with them then headed back to the hostel that night and relaxed some more. The next morning (10am) we flew back to Latvia and got back to Lithuania at about 11 pm. So, it was a crazy long day.

Since then, the whole day I have been back, I have just been chilling and re-energizing from the fun crazy weekend. Now, I am procrastinating from doing homework and such. Ha.